“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, ...

Another possibility is that CWISE got a “kick” from a black hole system that launched it right out of a globular star cluster and propelled it towards the center of the Milky Way. In conversation with ...

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

(CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long ...

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly challenging. For example, there has been a debate among astronomers for decades ...

Greetings everyone! We’ve lost three of the five visible planets to the sun’s glare with only Jupiter remaining in the ...

It wasn’t all that many years ago that you could go to a major astronomy meeting and hear the latest news about galaxies and supernovas and quasars and the Big Bang — but nothing at all about planets ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...